Charles

does anyone need a used monkey’s paw? I’m all finished with my wish to vindicate effective altruism by regulating frontier AI labs

March 6 2023

How Citadel harnessed the weather to claim hedge fund crown Bold bet on commodities plays large part in lifting Ken Griffin’s firm to record $16bn profit

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How Citadel harnessed the weather to claim hedge fund crown Bold bet on commodities plays large part in lifting Ken Griffin’s firm to record $16bn profit

Citadel (a major hedge fund) has been rumoured to have made high single digit or low double digit billions in the last 5 years trading electricity and natural gas, and employs a team of meteorologists for that purpose. www.ft.com/content/d92e...

Nat gas PMs at Citadel crying right now watching the world catch up

I like him, mostly because I got a good impression from his Conversation with Tyler. He seems truth seeking and relatively humble for someone in his position.

People who can't own up to not being perfectly selfless sometimes invent all kinds of cope to deny this. But nobody is perfectly selfless, and that's fine.

People who accept this and still try to do good rather than giving up or denying reality are awesome.

It's likely he's not doing it seeking love

The problem with US charity is that it’s not effective enough The New York Times painted a misleading picture. Less than 0.2 percent of US charity is ruthlessly optimized.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

@dylanmatt.bsky.social on fire here

He's like any comedian who makes fun of public figures - it's not the highest calling in the world but there are much worse things, and it's very different to going after any easy target.

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/open...

"Training ChatGPT as well as new models could cost as much as $3bn this year, according to financial documents seen by the publication."

Does anyone have ideas about the breakdown of this? Like how much is likely to be GPT5 vs other projects

Thanks for this, very useful! I'd appreciate being added to it also, if you don't mind